LinkedIn has launched its built-in AI career chatbot to help users build better résumés, cover letters, and even evaluate their role qualifications.
First reported by TechCrunch, LinkedIn launched AI career coaches based on several industry personalities to break down the platform's job courses and offer job-hunting advice.
Among the AI personalities included career experts Alicia Reece, Anil Gupta, Dr. Gemma Leigh Roberts, and Lisa Gates.
The AI career coaches are expected to provide users with strategies on how to improve their career documents, negotiate starting salaries, and work responsibilities.
LinkedIn has earlier indicated plans to leverage more generative AI into its operations as its parent company, Microsoft, further invests in AI ventures.
LinkedIn Pushes More AI Features for Job Seekers
The AI career coaches are only among the new AI-powered features LinkedIn has and will release into its platform as the company starts catching up with other social platforms.
On top of career coaching, AI chatbots will also be rolled out to fasten the search suitable to people's salary expectations, skills, and preferred locations.
Most of the data will be directly taken from available job postings on the site, preventing the AI from hallucinating hiring posts.
Employers and marketers will also receive more AI tools via Recruiter 2024 as LinkedIn prepares to expand the program to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Like Microsoft, the company has also cut down its workforce over the past months as LinkedIn focuses more on generative AI features.
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AI Presence Grows in Job Industry
Since its surge over three years ago, generative AI's shadow continues to loom over the job industry amid layoffs and steeper job markets.
AI's popularity in the industry has, in turn, sparked the rise of more AI-powered job-hunting tools to help equip people with the advent of generative AI.
Several job posting platforms like Indeed, Upwork, and CareerBuilder have already launched AI features into their sites ahead of LinkedIn to anticipate the surge in demand.
The International Monetary Fund projected that over 40% of all the jobs in the world could be "exposed" to AI in the coming years with developed countries more vulnerable to its impacts.
